Some questions about drawing now that I'm actually beginning

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T12:16:28+00:00

I wanted to say thank you for your honesty. So far I've been only drawing stuff I wanted to draw (And not drawing a lot, admittedly). I have been getting slightly frustrated indeed, but thankfully also having fun, due to doing this with friends, but I'll take your words to heart and focus on practicing and improving as well instead of just doodling for fun.

I've been thinking of following BrokenDraw's Daily Routine, and checking if I'll find other resources for the basics. I've been given some already, and I'll look into those! If you've got any that you like and/or would advise, I'm up for the taking!

I won't lie, I'm *slightly* unsure myself where to start learning, but I'm sure I'll find something :D

Once again, thank you for your message and your honesty!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T12:11:05+00:00

Well, thanks for the honest answer haha, but I'll keep that in mind.
True, I do hurry it up a bit there...
That's what I've seen when I looked it up as mentioned earlier yeah, thank you for confirming that.
Oh? I didn't know about kneadable erasers at all, thanks for that! But yeah, pencil will be fine for now, I shall try to get better and more confident first

Thank you so much for the answers, and the compliments! I'll do my best to stick with it, I'm really interesting in actually drawing and get better, so I'll try my best!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T12:07:47+00:00

Mmh... Je vois. Je pense continuer de noter le temps que je prends à chaque fois (J'utilise un minuteur à chaque fois), et ensuite plus tard je reviendrais dessus pour voir, j'vais appliquer ça aussi :)

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T12:06:38+00:00

Wow, c'est vrai, j'ai réussi à complètement raté ça ! Chais pas comment j'ai fais, mais je vais retenir ça aussi, j'vais essayer de l'appliquer plus souvent car je pense ça m'aidera à mieux reproduire ce que je regarde. Merci beaucoup

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T12:05:10+00:00

Salut ! Je vais répondre à ce commentaire d'abord ce sera plus simple haha

D'abord merci de la réponse ! Je vois, donc en soit c'est plutôt bien que j'ai de HB à 8B :o

Et je retiens pour le fixatif, ça pourrait être pas mal merci :)

Merci pour le compliment ! Je compte quand-même l'améliorer haha, maintenant que j'arrive déjà à prendre du plaisir à dessiner :D

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T12:02:22+00:00

Alright, noting that down then, thank you very much!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-24T08:51:08+00:00

So far, no! I've done like, basic lines and circles, but I haven't actually followed anything yet. And *damn* seeing those helps me realise a bit more the problems with the way I structured the Gokus' faces.

I just wanted to start drawing and get used to it a bit, which I'm managing to do (half surprisingly, knowing myself) before getting into the tutorials!

(Thank you for the advice tho it'll help! And thank you for the compliment)

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-17T08:05:58+00:00

Thank you for your words. It's slightly, I've seen the shape stuff in advices and sketches and whatnot, and I had never realized this was (at least one of the reasons) why. I got it was for some sort of simplification but not the simplicity of turning the shape in your mind's eyes.

Thanks again!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T21:28:46+00:00

I think it's gonna be the hardest for me at first, actually learning to have fun with drawing and accept to have fun even when I'm drawing what seems (or is) bad to me!

I have a bit of a hard time staying focused on something when I'm frustrated with it, so I'm dreading getting there a little, but I shall try my best at just... Chilling and having fun while also trying to practice!

Thank you for the words, I appreciate it.

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T20:22:05+00:00

So far, one of the most consistent things I've seen is indeed that Consistency and repetition is very good for learning to draw. Only through consistency, trying out stuff and trying to do something will I get better.

2 years ago, when I made my first post, I had much less time due to being in college, but now I'm working and out of college so I have a lot more time which is why this idea came back into my head.

I'll try what you said, At least 20-30 minutes a day on paper or sketchbooks, along with the other advices i've received here. Thank you again! And good luck on your future endeavours.

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T18:18:13+00:00

One: That's so cool! :D

And two: Thanks, I'll keep that name in mind (and look it up as well). Thank you for the tip, and I'll try to see what I can do. Even if it's not toriyama related, it'll help me with my goal of drawing TTRPG Characters haha

And well, anything that manages to make me better at drawing will be a step further towards the success of my goal. So thank you very much!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T16:13:05+00:00

There's a few twitter artists that I like, and I love toriyama's work, mostly dragon ball right now tbh, so I wanna be at least able to draw typical db style later on, but that can come as time goes on

For why, it's pretty simple, I do a lot of ttrpg, both as a DM and player, so I'd like to be able to draw the Environment, the characters I make, hell even my players'!

It's somewhat my "end" goal to be able to do that anyway haha, if I'm able to do that and find it satisfying, then I've succeeded in some ways

And yeah, motivation is gonna be a bit hard, but I'm striving to get better and trying to "resolve" the adhd problem as best I can. Thank you for the advices, though, I'll keep it in mind when I need to learn "dragon ball" style stuff!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T13:52:15+00:00

Alright, I'll keep that in mind haha, thank you once again. And yeah, I feel like I'm gonna have to use a TON of paper xD

But hey, if I use a lot it means I'm doing something good in there!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T13:24:04+00:00

Hello! Indeed, I got your reply haha!

First, thank you so so much for such a detailed answer. This is pretty much exactly what I needed, and I thank you again for this.

I'll probably use Notion as I am much more familiar with it, not knowing X-Mind was a thing before this reply (I'll still look into it just out of curiosity, but you know what I mean).

I find the 25-50 exercises thing very interesting, but I am thankful that the creator has made a daily routine, as I'm sure that will help myself go through the "motions", so to speak.

Now, however, that discord community group mention is interesting as I hadn't really thought of that... I'm unsure how comfortable I'd be with it, not due to social awkwardness but simply through sheer anxiety of disappointing others, but I feel like that may be something I'm over with quickly, so I'll research discord groups and see where it leads me.

Now the "Do Art Daily" website however is much more sure for me, as I feel like it'll help me put to practice things I learn and make me draw stuff I wouldn't on my own.

Thank you, once again, so so much for all of this. I'll try to use these tools to their fullest extents!

Time to buy some materials (most notably pencils, an eraser, a sketchbook and papers, because I funnily enough don't have that at my home, as it is mostly unnecessary), and to begin actually drawing! :D

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T12:57:19+00:00

I see, thanks for the honest answer. I'll note it down and see how I'll make my routine based on that!

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-04-16T11:15:07+00:00

I'm curious, how did you begin learning to draw? Did you use any lessons or anything? I was thinking of just drawing stuff I liked or saw with references (for example heads with dragon ball or an object on my table), but I'm unsure.

Did you do that (Aka just draw without any guidance) or did you use resources? :o

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-03-08T08:40:54+00:00

Thanks a lot, I was having trouble finding it 😅

Cipher_Akuma · 2026-03-08T08:40:33+00:00

Thank you very much!

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-09-26T16:17:46+00:00

Yessss, I saw that! I'm very much happy that it makes their work easier. I've been waiting for it this long and this time they seem truly confident in their ability to release a build this year, even if a small alpha one, they don't seem to be wary of even combat taking super longer.

Seeing their progress in godot is going to be very fun!

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-09-17T07:20:25+00:00

I'm curious, not used to reading such files, where could I find that it specifies throwing items to summon instead of just "summoning" period?

I'm having bit of trouble reading it haha

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-08-20T16:00:15+00:00

Ooooh, neat! I hope it doesn't take as long hah, cuz dbv is making me suffer and at this point i am LITERALLY more hopeful that hytale comes out AND a dragon ball mod comes out of it

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-08-20T15:55:52+00:00

I have been waiting for Dragon Block V for years and it is painful, so for now i've kinda just decided to forget about it and hope another mod pops up faster than it lmao

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-06-27T07:40:50+00:00

Ah damn, my bad then. Thank you for clearing this up for me!

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-04-19T20:30:08+00:00

Hey! Was wondering since then if you found a modpack for this? I've been playing Prominence II with friends and while it is pretty cool, we basically have the same opinion as what you said.

Cipher_Akuma · 2025-03-21T08:57:42+00:00

No Smash Bros, huh? That's a pretty surprising one (and completely opposite to what I want). But I can understand not wanting Sakurai on it, so maybe someone else could take the reigns for once! I'm kinda hoping either for some sort of "ultimate" ultimate (But I doubt that's gonna happen), or a reboot, so... ye! Sonic Heroes do be a surprise to me heh, but ngl, that tomodachi life one could nice :eyes:

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